Arquivo da categoria ‘Manifestação’

Two members from about 4,000 families facing removal by a World Cup 2014 Light Rail project in Fortaleza, Brazil, managed to present a document to President Dilma Rousseff detailing the atrocities they have experienced in the project’s implementation at an event earlier this month, according to The Movement to Fight in Defense of Housing (MLDM).

About a thousand protesters greeted the president who was attending the inauguration ceremony of two metro stations, where the community members had managed to enter the highly-policed event and gain the president’s attention. In addition to those from the threatened communities, their supporters, and various other groups all protesting outside, there was a strong presence of indigenous peoples calling for a politic that values them through the demarcation, recognition, and protection of their traditional territories, according to MLDM. They were also protesting against the high frequency of indigenous deaths throughout Brazil.